For years, the housekeeping school in Bitche, Alsace, has had the mission of training its young students to become ideal housewives. It is the law of the age: to marry and serve a man.
On the eve of the events of May 68, Paulette van Der Beck, the director, assisted by her sister-in-law Gilberte and sister Marie-Thérèse, will see all her certainties waver when her husband dies. She then finds André, her first great love…